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Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a meeting with his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón on the sidelines of the ASEAN-EU Commemorative Summit marking 45 years of diplomatic ties in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday.

Society

-- Police in Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam are investigating a case where three boys were accused of raping a sixth-grade schoolgirl in their school’s washroom last month.

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City have dismantled a gambling ring that operated in the city and other localities, and have arrested members of the gang who were frequently equipped with firearms to threaten their debtors.

-- A kindergarten teacher from Da Nang City, central Vietnam has been fined VND20 million (US$850) for beating and starving some students at her school in October.

-- It will remain cold but will be partly sunny in northern Vietnam on Thursday, while southern provinces are forecast to experience cold weather in the evening because of a cold front, according to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

-- Doctors at K Hospital in Hanoi said on Wednesday that they had successfully removed dozens of tumors from the bodies of two 27-year-old identical twins diagnosed with neurofibromatosis, a rare genetic disorder that caused hundreds of tumors to develop on the patients' bodies.

Sports

-- Thirteen track-and-field finals for the 2022 National Sports Festival were held at My Dinh Stadium in Hanoi on Wednesday.

-- France held their nerve to overcome a gallant Moroccan effort and secure an opportunity to retain their World Cup crown, beating the North Africans 2-0 in Wednesday’s semi-final to set up a heavyweight showdown with Argentina, Reuters reported.

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